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Treme Episode Three: Don’t Let the Water Wash Us Away
“Me Donkey Want Water,” the title of Episode 3, Season 3 of Treme, is also the title of one of Monk Boudreaux’s compositions on Tab Benoit’s Voice of the Wetlands […]
How To Make Music A City Priority
I was at the meeting today at Kermit’s Speakeasy, and it was heartening to see so many people rally to support the cause of live music in the city. Most […]
Treme Ep. Two Preview: Spencer Bohren and “The Long Black Line”
One of the best musical moments in Episode 2 of Treme, airing this Sunday, September 30, comes when Spencer Bohren, OffBeat’s October cover subject, plays his signature song “The Long […]
Treme Returns Tonight For Season Three
The third season of Treme starts as in so many episodes, with Antoine Batiste (Wendell Pierce) in a cab, debating the details with a driver and volleying for a pass, or […]
Sneak Peek: Exclusive Preview from HBO’s Treme, Season Three (video)
At the outset of Season 3 of the HBO series Treme Antoine Batiste is rushing to attend a second line in memory of New Birth Brass Band tuba player Kerwin […]
Take Us Underground, Please.
The outrage that many locals feel towards Entergy after last week and weekend’s power failure is justified, I feel. “Hurricane” Isaac, was just barely a storm, barely a Cat 1 […]
Is It Already Too Late?
Hurricane Isaac was a massive, slow moving storm that did tremendous damage, destroyed entire towns and caused numerous fatalities. It was “only” a category 1 hurricane, yet it created a […]
Amanda Schurr joins OffBeat
Am wishing you, in advance, a happy Katrina Day. It’s been seven years to the day when we were almost wiped off the face of the earth by that lovely […]
Hurricane Anxiety
Am sitting in my (still) Katrina-damaged home thinking to myself: “Can we go through this again?” As of this writing, Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to strengthen and hit the […]
Oh, boo hoo.
Here we go again: this morning’s Time-Pic had another letter protesting live music. Published right at the top of the Letters page, it’s the same old complainers, the moneyed classes […]
